This is more of a math/arithmetic question than a real programming question, but this seems the best fit anyway ;) I work in infrared imaging, and a peculiarity of nearly all IR image sensors is ...

As more data becomes available, the trends often become less linear, and a polynomial trend takes its place. Graphs with curved ... are used to define polynomial functions, which appear in ...

However, the effect of SLD has not been well defined ... Here we introduced the polynomial spectrum (p-spectrum), the fitting results with polynomial functions, to reveal the polynomial property ...